Cogs

Cogs are the main antagonists of Toontown Rewritten. They are evil business robots with the objective to convert Toontown into a dark corporate land. Their corporate ladders comprise of eight Cogs each, with a total of 32 different Cogs (36 if you count the bosses, 37 if you also count the Director of Ambush Marketing) with levels varying from level 1 to 12, but excluding the Director of Ambush Marketing where it was level 50. Cogs use a set of attacks to sadden the wacky, cheerful Toons into losing all their laff points; stronger Cogs tend to have higher health and stronger attacks.

Tutorial Tom said that the Cogs cannot take a joke. To affect the Cogs, Toons use jokes called gags to battle them. Cogs must be defeated by using gags.

The Cogs made their first canonical appearance as antagonists at the Toon Council Presidential Elections, transforming the event into Doomsday when unleashing an ambush marketing invasion. Before they were antagonists, their first appearance was in particular Trolley games where they would provide friendly competition. After the Cogs tried to take over the Toon Council Presidential Elections, they now roam the streets of Toontown, taking over Toon Buildings by dropping Cog Buildings on top of them.

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History

The Cogs were first known as "Trolley-bots" and they would appear in various trolley games to compete against the Toons. On March 26, 2014, the Trolley-bots were recalled because Doctor Surlee accidentally left them in debug mode. With debug mode on, whenever Toons would play a trolley game with Trolley-bots, the Toons would receive a single whisper of a secret message like DS-Debug1: Serial Suit #0045 Method.

When all secret messages were received, they formed two sentences as pieced together:

"Method used is the same as last time

All Records Expunged, Further Investigation Will Be Necessary"

In this order, the hexadecimal serial numbers could be decoded to read "Creating Equiment" (without the letter "p"). This was instrumental in decrypting Doctor Surlee's blueprint of the Manufacturing Machine. The debug messages don't just show us how to break a Silly Cipher, it also shows us the true nature of the Cogs. Like Sir Max said before, it doesn't matter what toony thing the Toons do because the Cogs' method will be the same.

Doctor Surlee revealed to Sir Max that a certain button combination on the Trolley-bot control panel will temporarily deactivate the Trolley-bots. To do this, Doctor Surlee said to press the second one on the top row, the far right one, the first one and then the first one on the bottom row. This information would have perhaps been more useful if the control panel was not broken.

The Toon Council Presidential Elections was the day the Cogs first started invading Toontown. A level three Yesman, the first Cog to appear in Toontown (outside of trolley games), made Slappy go sad. These robots were dubbed "Cogs" by Doctor Surlee right before the event was invaded. Later during the event, more Cogs led by the Director of Ambush Marketing arrived. Eventually, all the invading Cogs were defeated by Flippy and the rest of the Toons.

After the Cogs invaded the Toon Council Presidential Elections at Toontown Central, Toontown was completely in peril, so it was up to the Toons to fight against the Cogs to keep Toontown safe and full of happy laughter. To this day, Toons still fight off against the Cogs to protect Toontown from their latest schemes.

Cog Invasion

An invasion happens when a specific type of Cog from any of the four corporate ladders take over a certain district. They can happen at any time in any district. During this time, no other Cog, except the invading Cog, are roaming the streets and Cog buildings. Skill points are doubled if a gag is successfully used.

In some cases, the Cogs will go above and beyond to launch full-scaled Mega-Invasions. Whenever a Mega-Invasion occurs, the invading Cog will take over most districts, but only a few will remain as "safe zones".

Cog Buildings

The Cogs have their very own type of buildings that are being dropped onto Toon Buildings in order to turn Toontown into a corporate skyscraper. Toons can revert a Cog Building back into a Toon Building by defeating all the Cogs inside the building. If a group of Toons successfully defeat the Cog Building, their names and faces will be shown as portraits on the wall inside the building. If a Toon can capture enough of these buildings without them being reproduced by the Cogs, the Toon may earn a star over their head. The number of floors in a Cog Building can be from 1 to 5. When a Cog walks into a Toon Building, that means a Cog Building will take its place. A Toon who attempts to enter the Toon Building along with the Cog will be forced to exit out. The type of Cog Buildings vary from the Cogs' corporate ladder: Sellbot, Cashbot, Lawbot, and Bossbot.

Yes, TTR has a full storyline to explain everything- even why people have to start over at 15 laff points. You'll see parts of it as development continues, but it is a pretty deep story that won't be fully revealed for a while. While the game is still going to be targeted at children, I want to add deeper aspects than "cogs are bad."